"The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs."

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"The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs."

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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

George Eliot, British Author

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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older."

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"A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief."

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"The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice."

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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."

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"Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell."

"Sex is a slotmachine."

"We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work."

"Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older."

"A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief."

"The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice."

"A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right."

"It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you."

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